Speedrunners will try to beat a game from start to finish as quickly as possible, while also adhering to a set of rules.

To better understand just what it takes to speedrun FromSoftware’s latest game, Polygon spoke with Tom “LilAggy’’ Agnew, who currently holds a personal record of 59:38 and was one of the speedrunners to beat the game in under an hour.

The game was only released in late February, but players continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These highly technical players can condense a difficult and enormous game into a mere 19-minute playthrough, with a combination of technical skill, glitches, and exploits. Official speedrun leaderboards for Elden Ring opened today, so Hazeblade is now officially the fastest Elden Ring player.It’s easy to marvel at the feats of speedrunners, especially players who are currently working on speedruns of the hard-as-hell adventure Elden Ring. A recent patch from FromSoftware rebalanced the game, which many suspected would require new speedrunning strategies.Īs speedrunner LilAggy told Eurogamer: 'On the bright side, pretty much all of the glitches we have been using to skip through the game are still working, so it's really just a matter of figuring out what the best thing to defeat the bosses with is now.' What's also notable is that Hazeblade is still playing the game on Patch 1.02 by not updating the game, in order to use old exploits.

Interestingly, he doesn't choose the Samurai class at the start like other speedrunners have (he goes with Warrior instead), but he does still pick up the Icerind Hatchet weapon that's proven popular for its freezing ability.Ĭheck out a video of Hazeblade's run below. dWmzEBwXt6- Hazeblade MaTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. World First Sub-25 minute Elden Ring Speedrun using a really stupid glitch we call 'The Zip'.

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